Needle-threader



(No Model.)

I. A. FARRELL. Needle Threader. 4 No. 242,288. Patented May 31, 1881.!

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PATENT OFFICE...

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

NEEDLE-THREADER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANois A. FARRELL, of Brooklyn, in thcconnty of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Needle-Threaders, of which the following is a specification.

In sewing, the thread will frequently draw out of the needle and remain in the work, and an important object of myinvention is to provide a needle-threader by which the needle can be conveniently threaded with the thread so remaining in the work without breaking the thread away from the work, and which provides for removing the needle laterally from its holder or socket after threading it.

To this end myinvention consists ina needlethreader comprising two parts, one being adapted to be moved laterally away from the other, and both having formed in their meeting faces a longitudinal holder or socket for the needle, and being provided with a transverse hole for the thread, whereby provision is afforded for removing the needle, after being threaded, laterally from said holder or socket. The two parts of the threader are preferably hinged together, so that one may be moved laterally away from the other without disconnecting it therefrom.

The invention further consists in the combination, with a threader of the kind above described, of a ripping-blade, whereby a very convenient implement for a seamstress is produced, and in certain details of construction, to be hereinafter described.

In the accompanyin gdrawin gs, Figure 1 rep resents a perspective view of a needle-threader embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a longitudinal section thereof, taken through the plane of the holder or socket for the needle, and Fig. 3 represents a side view thereof, with a rippingblade attached.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

As here represented, the threaderis doublethat is, it is provided with two holes for the reception of thread, and two holders or sockets, one somewhat smaller than the other, for the reception of needles of different sizes. The holes a, for the reception of the thread, extend transversely through the threader from side Patent No. 242,288, dated May 31, 1881.

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to side, and are countersunk or made flaring upon one side, to facilitate the entering of the thread. The holders or sockets b, for the reception of the needle, extend longitudinally from one side or end of the threader and intersect the holes a, as shown clearly in Figs. 1 and 2. The holders or sockets I), though they may be round at the top or the outer ends, are preferably tapered as they extend inward and take an oblong form transversely, so as to insure the needle being inserted with its eye in line with the hole to. Indeed, when the holder or socket l) is of such oblong or flattened trans verse section, the needle cannot be inserted at all unless with its eye in line with the hole, a.

In order to permit the ready withdrawal of the needle without breaking the thread away from the work, I divide the threader longitudi-' nally from one side to the holder or socket b, so that when the two parts are separated or moved laterally one away from the other, as shown inFig. 1, the thread may be conveniently removed transversely from the hole a and socket b. To effect such longitudinal division and lateral movement the threader might be composed of two pieces, alike in form, hinged together, and the holder or socket for the needle and the hole for the thread be cut or formed in their meeting edges; but a more convenient form is that here represented.

A designates a back or plate common to both threaders, and having a center piece or projection, A, rigidly attached thereto, forming shoulders d. The projection A might be made in one piece with the back plate, A; but in any case such piece A and shoulders (I may be considered as a part of the back plate.

B designates the two separate pieces which complete the threader. The pieces B, which are preferably hinged at c, as here shown, are guided in their movement by the flat face of the back plate, A, intersecting the shoulders (I, and when a needle is to be threaded are moved inward against the shoulders (I of the back plate, so that the positive coincidence of the portions of the hole a and holder or socket 1) formed in them, with the portions formed in the piece A,isinsured. In the double threader shown in Fig. 1 one of the pieces B is swung or turned outward, so as to permit the with drawal of the thread, while the other is turned inward against the shoulder d, in position for threading.

It will be clearly understood that after the needle is threaded and the part B swung outward provision is afforded for the free removal of the needle laterally from its holder or socket.

G designates a ripping-blade, which may be attached to the needle-threader either rigidly or by a pin, 0, so that it may be folded upon the side of the threader, as shown in dotted lines, Fig. 3, or extended, as shown in full lines. its edge a notch, f, adapted to engage with a stop-pin, {1, when the blade is extended for use.

\Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. A needle-threader comprising two parts, one being adapted to be moved laterally away from the other, and both having formed in their meeting faces a longitudinal holder or Socket for the needle, and being provided with a transverse hole for the thread, whereby provision is afforded for removing the needle, after being threaded, laterally from said holder or socket, substantially as specified.

When pix'oted the blade may have in 2. A needle-threader comprising two parts hinged together, one being adapted to be moved laterally away from the other, and both having formed in their meeting faces a longitudinal holder or socket for the needle, and being provided with a transverse hole for the thread, whereby provision is afforded for removing the needle, after being threaded, laterally from its holder or socket, substantially as specified.

3. A needle-threader having in it a transverse hole for the reception of the thread, a longitudinal holder or socket for the reception of the needle intersecting the said hole and divided longitudinally through said holder or socket, and a ripping-blade attached thereto, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

4. The needle threader com posed of the back plate, A, having a shoulder, d, and the part B, hinged thereto, the same being provided with a transverse threadhole, a, and a longitudinal needle holder orsocket, b, substantially as specified.

FRANCIS A. FARRELL.

Witnesses JOHN W. KoUvALINKA, T. J. KEANE. 

